Johnnetta B. Cole Citas

• The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

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  Inspirational, Expression, Generosity

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• Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

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  Ties, Groups, Tasks

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• An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

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  Done, Half, World

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• Lo que das debe estar en relación directa con lo que has recibido. Si has sido bendecido con mucho, entonces tienes mucho que dar.

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  Blessed, Giving, Stewardship

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• While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

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  People, Vision, Action

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.76, Anchor

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• You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Path

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• Muéstrame a alguien contento con la mediocridad y te mostraré a alguien destinado al fracaso.

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  Inspirational, Failure, Mediocrity

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• The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

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  Education, Reality, World

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.169, Anchor

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• The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

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  Past, New Day, Together

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• the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

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  Men, Trouble, Behinds

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.104, Anchor

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• If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

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  Dad, People, Racist

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• No somos muchas las presidentas afroamericanas, y las que estamos en este campo no lo tenemos fácil. Por qué se cuenta que una presidenta de universidad negra murió y se fue al infierno, y pasaron dos semanas antes de que se diera cuenta de que no seguía en el puesto.

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  Education, Jobs, College

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• La mujer que me dio a luz ya no vive, pero yo parezco ser su hija de maneras cada vez más profundas.

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  Mother Daughter, Honesty, Mother And Daughter

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• racism is alive and doing too well in America.

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  America, Racism, Alive

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.58, Anchor

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• The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

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  Family, Kings, Queens

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.161, Anchor

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• Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

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  Secret Love, Example, Want

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• Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world.

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  Racism, People, Community

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• The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

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  Rap, Men, Black

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• I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation or you called it apartheid, it was the same injustice.

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  Injustice, Segregation, Grew

  "American scholar recalls honoring Nelson Mandela with a quilt of connection". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 9, 2013.

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• Si centramos nuestras vidas en BMW, vehículos recreativos, videograbadoras, ordenadores personales y demás siglas del consumismo, no podemos esperar que nuestros hijos hagan lo contrario.

  Johnnetta B. Cole

  Children, Rvs, Bmw

  Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.9, Anchor

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